Category: art
Creativity, design, culture, inspiration
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Brooklyn Museum to Explore Removing Overpainting from Erotic Gauguin Relief Panel
In August, the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation announced that it was dispersing all 63 artworks in its possession to three art museums: the Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. Among the 29 artworks gifted to the Brooklyn Museum—many of them paintings and sculptures by Chaïm read more
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Cordy Ryman’s Playful Remix of Minimalism
Features The son of legendary painters, Ryman has developed his own visual language, transforming aspects of his parents’ work, and Minimalism, into something recognizably his. One of a group of new paintings in Cordy Ryman’s Brooklyn studio. (all photos courtesy the artist) Cordy Ryman is in an unenviable position. He is the youngest son of read more
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Suffering From “Creative Hangover”? You’re Not Alone
Every artist knows the feeling of emptiness that follows the completion of a project, especially a big one. You feel deflated, exhausted. You can’t imagine doing it again, but you also can’t imagine leaving art behind. A newly published study in The Journal of Positive Psychology now has a name for this sort of artistic read more
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Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum Names New Director
The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto has named Nicholas R. Bell as its next director and CEO. Bell, who was selected via an international search, will start in the role on July 6. He succeeds Josh Basseches, who stepped down at the end of last year after a decade in the role. Bell is currently read more
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Organized Chaos: The Art of Sam Gibbons – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Symmetry is an integral part of that world. Looking at a typical Sam Gibbons painting, I imagine a multitude of simple forces at odds with one another. Like one side of the face competing with the other, the right hand making a fist at the left, or two lines of identical children engaged in a read more
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Dalí Museum in Florida Announces $65 M. Expansion Planned for 2028
The Dalí MuseuminSt. Petersburgis planning a major expansion expected to begin construction in 2026, with the new facilities slated to open in 2028. The museum said the approximately 35,000-square-foot addition will cost an estimated $65 million and is intended to grow the exhibition spaces, create a dedicated learning center, and introduce new immersive experiences combining read more
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New Allegations Disrupt Sentencing in Massive Norval Morrisseau Forgery Case
The sentencing hearing for a man convicted in a sweeping art fraud scheme involving forged works attributed to the late Anishinaabe painter Norval Morrisseau was abruptly disrupted this week after allegations surfaced that members of the artist’s estate may have been complicit in the forgery operation, according toCTV News. Jeff Cowan, who wasfound guilty in read more
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Johan Siggesson's Striking Portraits of 'Big Tuskers' in Kenya
Among African elephants, “Big Tuskers” refers to bulls that grow tusks so long they sometimes scrape the ground. Each one can weigh well over 100 pounds. These giant, ivory incisors continually grow throughout an elephant’s life, and males typically have much larger tusks than females. The bigger the tusks, however, the more vulnerable these gentle read more
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New Book Reveals British Museum Staffer Stole 350 Artworks
A former British Museum staffer who worked in the prints and drawings departmentin the 1970s stole more than 350 artworks and sold some of his haul at an antiques market, according to a new book. As reported by the Independent, “The story of the thefts is recounted in Barnaby Phillips’s forthcoming book, The African Kingdom read more
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Carol Bove Just Revealed a Miró Mural Typically Hidden in the Guggenheim’s Walls
Carol Bove‘s rotunda-filling Guggenheim Museum show in New York may be billed as a retrospective, but it’s not a solo show in the traditional sense: it also features works by a range of artists interspersed throughout. In fact, the crown jewel of the show is not a sculpture by Bove but a mural by Joan read more
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Rediscover a Rembrandt After More than Six Decades in Hiding
In 1898, Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum staged an exhibition of paintings by renowned Dutch Golden Age artist Rembrandt (1606-1669). Included in this show was a 23-by-19-inch oil painting titled “Vision of Zacharias in the Temple,” which was completed in 1633, relatively early in the artist’s career. Fast-forward to 1960, and the work was deemed to have read more
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Booooooom Shop: Tomorrow’s Talent 5 Book
The wait is over! Our Tomorrow’s Talent 5 bookis finally here. If you’re new to the series, it has become a defining expression of our ongoing mission to discover and champion the next wave of visual artists. Each year, we spend months curating and assembling the work, and the finished volume has come to represent read more
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Whitney Biennial Sneak Peek
Daily Newsletter Impressions from the leading survey of American art, Chicago’s DePaul Art Museum shutters, arts leaders react to Mamdani’s pick for culture commissioner, and more. The Whitney Biennial, a leading survey of American art, opened to the press yesterday. This one is different: moody, contemplative, and with a proclivity for immersive experiences. We’re still read more
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Belarus Free Theatre to Present Venice Biennial Collateral Exhibition on Art Under Authoritarianism and Censorship
The Belarus Free Theatre, an underground theater group in exile since 2020, announced Wednesday that it will stage the exhibition “Official. Unofficial. Belarus.” as an official collateral event of the 61st Venice Biennale. The show, to be staged at the more than 1,000-year-old La Chiesa di San Giovanni Evangelista di Venezia, will open May 9, read more
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Dia Art Foundation to Stage Lee Ufan Exhibition During Venice Biennale
The Dia Art Foundation will mount a solo presentation dedicated to Lee Ufan as an official collateral event to the 2026 Venice Biennale. Opening May 9, the exhibition will be curated by Dia director Jessica Morgan and staged at the San Marco Art Centre. The exhibition in Venice, along with a display of Lee’s paintings read more
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Meet Maia Chao, the Art World Anthropologist Making Her Whitney Biennial Debut
Drawing from her background in anthropology, Maia Chao often approaches art with an observation, then a question: Where does the art in doctors’ offices come from? How do you make a living as an artist? Building on these inquiries, often through mimicry or replication, leads to works that can make the mundane feel absurd, beautiful, read more
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First Impressions From the 2026 Whitney Biennial
The Whitney Biennial bills itself as the pulse-check of what American art looks like now. This year’s edition, curated by Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer, with Beatriz Cifuentes and Carina Martinez, consists of the work of 56 artists, duos, and collectives. It’s themeless, but spotlights ideas of “relationality,” including family, technology, and mythology. I appreciate read more
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Swivel to Merge with Lower East Side’s Marc Straus Gallery, as Founder Graham Wilson Joins as Partner
Marc Straus Gallery announced Tuesday that Graham Wilson, the founder of Tribeca’s Swivel Gallery, has joined the gallery as a partner and senior director. As part of the move, Swivel will close its Tribeca space and its artists will move over to Straus, which has locations in Tribeca and the Lower East Side. The latter, read more
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Salvador Dalí’s Largest Ever Painting Heads to Auction
This month, Salvador Dalí’s largest ever painting, a monumental stage set measuring 65 by 100 feet, will head to auction in Paris. The work, which comes from a private collection, will lead Bonhams’s fourth annual sale dedicated to Surrealism on Thursday, March 26 and is estimated to bring $236,000–$350,000. Dalí conceived the 13-panel set for read more
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Rendered in Handmade Pigments, Rupy C. Tut's Warriors March Toward Belonging
“Warriorhood is an act of living an awakened life,” says Rupy C. Tut, referencing the continual battles that emerge from being a person in the world. Tut has long invoked her family’s history of migration and Punjabi heritage to consider kinship, a theme that has more recently evolved into a recurring warrior character. “The privilege read more
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